If I had to guess how the second season of Elementary was going to end, I wouldn’t have landed anywhere near the tone of “The Grand Experiment,” which reverses last season’s triumphant finale by blowing up the core of the series.
There really doesn’t even need to be a crime plot to frame an episode when the character is around, because these versions of the Holmes brothers and Watson can carry a full episode of material entirely through conversation
On the spectrum of tonal heaviness, Elementary usually leans to the lighter side of things, but it’s rarely as light as “The One Percent Solution” is.
“The Diabolical Kind” begins like any other episode of Elementary might. Watson walks down the stairs, notices Sherlock sitting in his beekeeping outfit, makes a sarcastic comment about his laundry and exits the brownstone. What follows – a sequence narrated by Johnny Lee Miller, which we find out is from a correspondence with Moriarty – is “The Diabolical Kind” announcing itself as anything other than a typical episode of Elementary.
Elementary, Season 2: Episode 6 – “The Marchioness” Written by Christopher Hollier and Craig Sweeny Directed by Sanaa Hamri Airs Thursday nights at 10 on CBS “The Marchioness” begins with a fantastic shot, directed by Sanaa Hamri, that creeps up in front of Sherlock as he is discussing what life would have been like at …
Elementary, Season 2, Episode 3, “We Are Everyone” Written by Craig Sweeny Directed by Michael Pressman Airs Thursdays at 10pm EST on CBS This week, on Elementary: Joan tries out a dating site, Sherlock puts a shoe on his head, and they both get hacked “We Are Everyone” continues Elementary’s strong start to its second …
Elementary, Season 2: Episode 1- “Step Nine” Written by Robert Doherty & Craig Sweeny Directed by John Polson Airs Thursdays at 10pm ET on CBS For those who have yet to see Elementary for whatever reason (such as not wanting to dive into another Sherlock Holmes adaptation when there’s a perfectly good Sherlock series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch …
Elementary, Season 1, Episode 23: “The Woman” Directed by Seith Mann Written by Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny Elementary, Season 1, Episode 24: “Heroine” Directed by John Polson Written by Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny For what seems like many months, fans of Elementary have waited with baited breath for this finale. After being endlessly …
Elementary, Season 1, Episode 10: “The Leviathan” Directed by Peter Werner Written by Corinne Brinkerhoff and Craig Sweeny Airs Thursdays at 10pm (ET) on CBS. Starring Jonny Lee Miller (Sherlock Holmes), Lucy Liu (Joan Watson), Aidan Quinn (Captain Gregson), Jon Michael Hill (Detective Bell). Guest starring Freda Foh Sheh (Mary Watson), Gbenga Akinnagbe (Jeremy Lopez) …
Elementary: Season 1, Ep. 4 – “The Rat Race” Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez Written by Craig Sweeny Elementary airs Thursday nights at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. After the enjoyably tense “Child Predator“, there were high hopes for the fourth episode of Elementary, rather than have the season return to the initial slump at the …